Making Ends Meat

Texas ranchers hit hard by drought eye rebuilding

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

Associated Press
One bovine pauses during a midday meal Dec. 16, 2013, at a feedlot near Lubbock, Texas.

Associated Press
Cattle in a feedlot near Lubbock, Texas, having a meal after a truck drops food in a trough on Dec. 16, 2013. Some Texas cattle producers are beginning a lengthy climb after a brutal and dispiriting stretch of years of drought. Hundreds of thousands of head in the nation’s le...

LUBBOCK, Texas—After a dispiriting stretch of years, many Texas ranchers are optimistic as drought, expensive feed and other conditions that decimated their cattle herds start to loosen...